<TITLE>02. Par 5-8</TITLE>L-5 But here was a little plane just about a mile high. And I was standing out fishing on a rock. And turned around, and went back, dropped a little parachute. Howard, my brother had just passed away; they was trying to get word to me. I rushed home. And in about two hours of time they had the funeral. Many of you remember Howard, has been up here in New York with me. The Lord has showed his going six years ago. He would be the next one to go.
Then I said, "I'll go over to California and have this meeting, Lakeport. I'll come back home, and then I'll take a little vacation."
When I got back home, they called me, said, "Brother Bosworth's dying in Florida." Well, I went to Florida last week to see Brother Bosworth. And the Lord had spared his life, and so when I got back, I thought, "Well, my, honey," said to my wife, "I'm going to take a little vacation."

L-6 That's right about then in about an hour, Brother Hudson said, "Brother Branham, please come up here." Brother Boze got on the phone, and well, there he was, and I said, "Well, honey, oh, Christmas holidays, please, I want to be home a little bit because we're going to Africa this summer and overseas, to be gone practically all summer."
And so up come ministers, and I said, "I'm sorry, brother. I'm sorry, I just--just got to have..." Well, Brother Babbage, an awful good friend of mine from down in Kentucky; he said, "Brother Branham, I'm glad to take the holidays."
And I said, "Well, my wife and children is too." So but finally he talked me out of it. So I had to be down there. So there's no rest for the weary, weary. Well, someday across the river we'll rest. How true.

L-7 Now, tonight I am, as usual, here to be your brother, to help you in anything that I can, for spiritual grace of God to instruct, to help Brother Hudson and--and those in this church and to call. We're not here with any denomination. We don't have any denomination. And we're just here to be your brother and your friend. And there's no barriers, or race, creed, or color. See, we just all one in Christ.
And so we want you to feel real at home, and invite your pastors and them, if they don't... Some of them has already called me and apologized that the meeting come so quickly, just a little farewell meeting for our brother here before going overseas... And they apologized to have their own meetings going on at this time, while we're here.

L-8 But we just come in to have a... maybe... Then if one person gets saved, what--it'd be worth all the toll rides and everything else. That's right. That one person might hit the mission fields and save ten thousand people before Jesus comes. That's right.
So now, just want to talk a little, because you got plenty good preachers. You're not needing preachers up here, but I just class myself as a spare tire. You know, you always carry a spare along, what if you have a flat. Now, we haven't got a flat, but--but we going to use a spare maybe for a little bit.
And each night now, and I believe Sunday afternoon, it's the close here. And Sunday night in--in New York city, I believe, Brooklyn. I get it all mixed up. It's all New York to me, just every bit of it. And so Brooklyn's where we'll be at for Sunday--for Sunday evening service.


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